Not knowing the alternatives available at that hour, we hiked long, desolate, wind-swept blocks, arriving cold and spent at our hotel.

The home, on a desolate block in the East New York section of Brooklyn, has been understaffed and lacking in sheets, blankets, functioning bathrooms, furniture and toys.

Many buildings that existed then have been torn down by the city, leaving several dozen open and desolate blocks.

West 39th Street between Ninth and 10th Avenues is a desolate block that sits over the entrance ramps to the Lincoln Tunnel.

But in the wreckage of desolate blocks it is still possible to find strangely shaped pieces of glass that melted together in the inferno.

But as Jorge scanned the desolate block of row houses, the smirk on his face got bigger.

Many artists and other homesteaders live in the desolate blocks near the Navy Yard known as Vinegar Hill.

Three years later the 42nd Street Development Corporation opened several more theaters in an attempt to use the performing arts to renew a desolate block.

The unit had been working the desolate blocks just below Fordham Road since the beginning of March, having taken a first thrust at them in January.

Her nearly naked body was set ablaze on May 7 outside an auto repair shop on a desolate block in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, the police said yesterday.